Lord create suffering. Pain death came world fall man. man chosen suff — Thomas Merton, No Man Island

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The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in preference to the joys of union with God, the Lord turned suffering itself into a way by which man could come to the perfect knowledge of God.

Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

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